The Internaut EP features two lengthy but perfectly paced slices of electro.
You may not be familiar with Maarten van der Vleuten under his own name, but chances are you’ve come across something he’s been involved with under some two-dozen aliases all the way from 1987 to now whether you’re interested in Detroit techno, house, electro or experimental and ambient music. His three track CTRL EP released as MVDV was the inaugural release on the Shipwrec imprint, showcasing a fun and enormously hooky cover version of Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control.” The Internaut EP is his follow up for the label, this time featuring two lengthy but perfectly paced slices of electro.
The title track is the real killer on the Internaut EP, wasting no time setting the pace and tone by blasting the horns of a gargantuan mega-liner, interspersed with chitinous 808s. Moments later and bursts of electro are being fired into fields of Toytronica synth crossfire, dry, rubbery pitch-bent squeaks and chiming alarm bells, all setting a breathless pace that belies the loping off-beat undercurrents. Every second of its eleven minute run time is absolutely essential.
“Holographic Inserts” slows things down on the flip-side with a tense sci-fi groove, all electro gulps, strobing field-generators, atmospheric machine whirs, fizzling laser fire and Orbital-style melodic bleeps. The whole layered mass is subtly phase-shifted and modified across a further old-school nine minutes that, again, feels over too quickly.
Released in a silk-screened PVC jacket with very nice artwork by Yorick de Vries, the first 150 copies look even cooler pressed up on marbled coloured vinyl. The Internaut EP is another great addition to the Shipwrec catalogue, easily the best since Datasette’s People Without Mouths EP. Buy with confidence.
The Internaut EP is available on Shipwrec. [Release Page]
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